Back from the edge: It’s easy to blame online rhetoric for violence. The reality is much harder
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Taiwan ruling party suffers major defeat in local elections
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Natalie Wynn: The stylish socialist who is trying to save YouTube from alt-right domination
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The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really?
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A group of school students preparing for a nationwide strike over climate change inaction have prompted the closure of Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's electorate office.
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Thousands of Cuban doctors leave Brazil after Bolsonaro's win
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New rule: Just don't go there
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At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions.
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Cities: Skylines | Power, Politics, & Planning: Episode 5: Public Housing Part 1
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US adviser hints at evicting China from WTO
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Turkey sentences seventy-four to life in prison in post-coup case: Anadolu
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Welcome to the ‘New Turkey': Five years after Gezi park, protesters face new threats of arrest
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Smearing Soros to stoke hate: You too, Facebook?
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Muslim leaders say they will boycott a proposed meeting with PM Scott Morrison after he said they should do more to combat extremism
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Errant Signal - "Keep Your Politics Out of my Video Games"
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Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Climate Mash
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison will cut the number of migrants coming to Australia, declaring the "roads are clogged" and buses, trains and schools in Sydney and Melbourne "are full".
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The Web is still a DARPA weapon
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Fiji election: Bainimarama returned as PM in slim victory
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Last surviving Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in landmark ruling
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Exiled: The disturbing story of a citizen made unBritish
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Japan cybersecurity minister admits he has never used a computer
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Denmark withholds aid to Tanzania after anti-gay comments
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Indigenous Canadian women kept from seeing their newborn babies until agreeing to sterilization, says lawyer
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Czech PM's future hangs in balance after son's kidnap claims
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Opinion: Palmer Luckey was fired from Facebook because of losing the the $500 million IP lawsuit to ZeniMax, not his politics
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Should the press boycott Trump? Political strategists weigh in
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One year after Yes vote, same-sex couples celebrate - and fight anew
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Humanists going all the way: AHA to defend church-state separation at the US Supreme Court
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'A red line crossed': Nationwide protests declared for Thursday at 5PM after Jeff Sessions fired
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White House revokes press pass from CNN's Jim Acosta
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Should there be a tax on red meat?
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What stops some US states from providing universal healthcare on their own?
I'm not very familiar with how government works in the US, and I've always had this question. Like, if states are reasonably independent, and it seems like there are some states who lean way more...
I'm not very familiar with how government works in the US, and I've always had this question.
Like, if states are reasonably independent, and it seems like there are some states who lean way more into the socially liberal side of the spectrum from providing universal healthcare (or at least some better healthcare policies) on their own?
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Rod Rosenstein no longer overseeing US Russia probe
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Jared Polis of Colorado is the first openly gay man to be elected as a state governor
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Polls close in high-stakes Madagascar presidential election
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Sociogenomics is opening a new door to eugenics
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Mark Latham will contest NSW election with One Nation to 'fight for civilisational values'
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An 82-year-old Texas woman voted for the first time. Then she died.
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There’s no plan B for port security
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US Supreme Court allows historic kids' climate lawsuit to go forward
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Right-wing hate groups are recruiting video gamers
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Seventeen million Australians to be automatically enrolled in My Health record
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Government experts say plan to prevent animal extinctions is failing
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Wentworth by-election: Kerryn Phelps officially declared winner
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What Isaac Asimov taught us about predicting the future
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Pakistan’s ultra-Islamist party blocked roads in major cities for a third day on Friday in protest against the acquittal of a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy allegations
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US Federal Communications Commission Republican claims municipal broadband is threat to First Amendment
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Kenyatta orders lifestyle audit on high net worth individuals over low tax remittances
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Gab's demise is just the beginning of a horrific new era of far-right extremism
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